Tonight's gig for The Buddhist Village Trust at the Bloomsbury was pretty much full and went very well. It raised £12,600 for the Sri Lankan victims of the tsunami. Imagine how big a house you could build with that. One Sri Lankan bloke is going to be very happy.
I did some material about the 12 year old girl who was done for drink driving this week. I don't know if you saw the story. She was with her family on Christmas Day and had got a bit bored (we can all understand that feeling, right?) and so she'd "borrowed" her father's car keys and then proceeded to attempt to drive to Reading which was 30 miles away. She was stopped doing 70 mph through a village, where she'd been clipping kerbs and generally driving erratically. Apparently she was so small she could barely see over the steering wheel.
Now you have to admire the British police force. They caught a clearly underage girl, driving a car, way beyond the speed limit and they still had the prescence of mind to breathalyse her. Like what she was caught doing wasn't bad enough. "You're underage, you're breaking the speed limit, you could have killed someone. If you've been drinking as well long lady you're going to be in some real trouble."
She was drunk, she was over twice the drink drive limit. But I don't think that's fair. Those limits are designed for adults. One drink would put a puny little twelve year old over the limit. I am going to campaign for a different drink-drive limit to be set for the under 16s, so they too can enjoy a couple of drinks before they go out on a drive without falling foul of our Nazi police force.
The front page of the Mirror on Friday said this girl was the youngest drink driver ever caught in this country, adding, "previously it was Jon Smee, 13. Turn to page 5."
I was kind of hoping that on page 5 there'd be an interview with Smee with him saying, "Well obviously I'm disappointed. I always knew this day would come. I just never imagined that I'd get beaten by a girl."
